Microsoft Teams: Disable chat write access for anonymous or unauthenticated users

IT admins can now disable chat write access at the policy level for non-federated users and unauthenticated users who join Teams meetings through a link that must be used in conjunction with disabled meeting chat policy to provide additional security against data exfiltration.

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Universal Print: Delegated Admin Support

IT Pros will be able to delegate rights to administrate a select group of printers to another person. This is very useful; in case a branch office team needs the ability to manage the printers at their location.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Button long press to Raise Hand during meeting

Raise Hand is a popular feature in Teams and is something all users can use, often many times over the course of a meeting. This feature allows users the ability to invoke a Raise Hand reaction during a meeting by simply holding the Teams button on their certified peripheral.

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Microsoft Teams and Forms: Rating Poll

The Rating question type is being added to the Polls app within Microsoft Teams.  Meeting owners can easily create and launch Rating polls to increase engagement and collect input from their meeting attendees, as well as share the results live.

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Word: Editor Text Predictions in Word for Mac

Editor Text Predictions in Word for Mac accelerates your writing by predicting text as you type.

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Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports

Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.

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Microsoft 365 compliance center: Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management – Adaptive retention policies

This update allows admins to create retention policies scoped to geography, department, or other user or site attribute. For example, admins can create a policy specifically for users in the UK’s human resources team by leveraging the adaptive policy scope.
More info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/get-started-with-data-lifecycle-management?view=o365-worldwide

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Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Identify Teams as data sources (U.S. Government clouds)

Simplified picking of relevant Teams and channels (standard, private, and shared) to intelligently identify associated custodian mailboxes, group mailboxes, OneDrive for Business accounts, and SharePoint sites that may contain Teams data that’s relevant to your case.

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SharePoint: Multilingual User Interface Streamlining

The SharePoint multilingual feature is expanding to include team sites. This new release includes other improvements to the navigation and site title editing experience for users whose preferred language differs from the sites default language.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-multilingual-communication-sites-pages-and-news-2bb7d610-5453-41c6-a0e8-6f40b3ed750c

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Microsoft 365 Compliance center: Microsoft Purview | eDiscovery (Premium) – Hold reports (U.S. Government clouds)

Out-of-the-box reports that contain information about all legal holds associated with eDiscovery cases in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. Sort and filter your view based on various criteria and download the aggregated information for further analysis.

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